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Saturday, 1 August 2015

Sarob
Press is pleased to present a bumper first hardcover collection of
ghostly stories by Michael Chislett. These thirteen stories are
mostly set in or around the author’s fictional London borough of
Milford and the suburb of Mabbs End (possibly some of the most
haunted of London locations). Although Mr Chislett’s very
original voice shines brightly in every story, a few also subtly (or
not so) reveal his influences ... especially Angela Carter, MR James
& Arthur Machen. Some of the stories have previously appeared in
the excellent Supernatural Tales magazine (edited by David
Longhorn) and some in Rosemary Pardoe’s superb Ghosts & Scholars journal. “The Old Geezers” previously appeared in
The Silent Companion (the fiction journal of “A Ghostly
Company”). The novelette “The Changelings” and the story “Held
in Common” are both original to this volume.

These
are not your usual hauntings ... in the city of ghosts there are no
rules. And not everything is as it might, at first, appear.

There
is darkness ... and there is light ... and, often, it’s not easy to
spot the difference!

Saturday, 20 June 2015

The Ghosts & Scholars Book of
Shadows Volume Two was just as
successful as volume one, so we have agreed to go ahead with a third volume to
complete the sequence and include prequels and sequels to some (hopefully all)
of those M.R. James stories which were not covered in the first two
collections.

The
deadline for submissions to the third Book
of Shadows is 31 December 2015. Send
them to Rosemary Pardoe (dandrpardoe@gmail.com) preferably in the form of a
Word or RichText e-mail attachment, or in the body of an e-mail (or on a
CD-ROM: snail mail address on request).
The current plan is for the book to be published around the middle(ish)
of 2016.

Here
is the full list of remaining stories for you to take your pick from:

You
may be wondering why we have specified prequels only for “Lost Hearts”: this is
because Rosemary has already accepted sequels to that story (very different).
You might also wonder about the inclusion of “The Fenstanton Witch”. This isn’t among the stories published in, or
just after, MRJ’s lifetime, and is sometimes listed with the unfinished
drafts. But unlike the rest of those
(with the exception of the comic “A Night in King’s College Chapel”) it is a completed story, just one which MRJ
never really polished to his own satisfaction.
Rosemary has also not ruled out the possibility of including prequels
and sequels inspired by some of MRJ’s other works such as The Five Jars, Abbeys, The Apocryphal New Testament and Suffolk and Norfolk. So if you have something you’d like to do
along these lines, contact her to discuss it.

Monday, 18 May 2015

I've
been busy checking, numbering & packing pre-orders and, after
working into the wee small hours, was able to get to La Poste and
send all UK, Europe and Rest of World pre-orders on Friday of last
week. Delivery should be within 10-14 days.

I've
just finished packing all USA pre-orders (and a few orders received
late last week) and hope to get all these shipped tomorrow.

All
Book-Dealer orders are also packed up and I'm heading over to Wales
on Thursday and, if all goes to plan, these will ship on Friday from
within the UK.

Already
there are just around THIRTY FIVE copies of this one left … so
don't hang about too long if you haven't ordered and want a copy.